School health assistant resigns after sex abuse charges

A health assistant at Wood View Elementary School in Bolingbrook has resigned in the wake of sex abuse charges.

Assistant Supt. Mike Perrott on Thursday confirmed that the Valley View Community School District 365U board accepted Laura Obzera's resignation this week.

Obzera, 49, was charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse on Sept. 11 after having sex with three teenage boys in 2006, officials have said. She was arrested nine days after police joined an inquiry into sexually charged text messages that were exchanged between an adult female and male teens, officials said.

The behavior was unrelated to the school or to Obzera's position at the school, police said.